By W. A. Barnhardt¹, editor

Contributing authors:

W. C. Schwab¹, P. T. Gayes², R. A. Morton³, N. W. Driscoll⁴, W. E. Baldwin¹, W. A. Barnhardt¹, J. F. Denny¹, M. S. Harris⁵, M. P. Katuna⁵, T. R. Putney⁶, G. Voulgaris⁷, J. C. Warner¹, and E. E. Wright²

¹U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA
²Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC
³U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg, FL
⁴Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
⁵College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
⁶General Engineering and Environmental, LLC, Charleston, SC
⁷University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Published 2009

Abstract

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, conducted a 7-year, multi-disciplinary study of coastal erosion in northeastern South Carolina.  The main objective was to understand the geologic and oceanographic processes that control sediment movement along the region's shoreline and thereby improve projections of coastal change.  The study used high-resolution remote sensing and sampling techniques to define the geologic framework and assess historic shoreline change.  Based on these findings, oceanographic-process studies and numerical modeling were carried out to determine the rates and directions of sediment transport along South Carolina's Grand Strand.

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